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SUMMARY:Author/Professor Talks at Karamu About Writer Langston Hughes Ideas
  About Democracy
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 Langston Hughes[/caption]\nWed 5/20 @ 6PM\nWhile legendary Harlem Renaissa
 nce poet/playwright/novelist Langston Hughes didn’t spend a lot of his l
 ife in Cleveland — he passed through for a couple of years\, living in F
 airfax and attending Central High School as a teenager\, and taking part i
 n artist programs at Karamu — Cleveland has always claimed a piece of th
 e influential writer/social justice activist as its own.\nLearn more about
  his peripatetic life and his diverse influences in a program called My Am
 erica: Langston Hughes on Democracy\, based on the book of the same name b
 y which Indiana University Professor of African American and African Diasp
 oric Studies Dr. Randal M. Jelks. Jelks will talk about how Hughes was imp
 acted by the many places he lives in the U.S.\, Europe and Mexico and how 
 they shaped his thinking and his work as a young man with a focus on Hughe
 s’ perspectives on democracy\, human struggling and creativity.\n“With
  care and no-holds-barred insight\, My America removes the veneer of res
 pectability often placed on Hughes’s work and life to reveal his politic
 al adeptness\,” we’re told. “In a world threatened by fascism\, Hugh
 es’s writing wasn’t afforded the luxury of subtlety. He made a spiritu
 al and political decision to stand on the side of the oppressed. He believ
 ed art should be practiced for the sake of justice. And democracy can be p
 racticed with joy.”\nAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards program director Kortney
  Morrow will moderate the talk. Copies of Dr. Jelks’ book will be availa
 ble for purchase. The talk is free and open to the public. Get more inform
 ation here.\n[mappress mapid="630"]
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 Affairs,----WRITERS----,Politics,Anastasia
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